Bulletin -Sunday, 29th September 2019

Mass Reding - 29th, September 2019

FIRST READING
A reading from the Book of Amos 6:1. 4-7
Those who sprawl and those who bawl will be exiles.

The almighty Lord says this:
Woe to those ensconced so snugly in Zion
and to those who feel so safe on the mountain of Samaria,
Lying on ivory beds
and sprawling on their divans,
they dine on lambs from the flock,
and stall-fattened veal;
they bawl to the sound of the harp,
they invent new instruments of music like David,
they drink wine by the bowlful,
and use the finest oil for anointing themselves,
but about the ruin of Joseph they do not care at all.
That is why they will be the first to be exiled;
the sprawlers' revelry is over.

The Word of the Lord


Resposorial Psalm     Ps 145
Response:   My soul, give praise to the Lord.
  
1. It is the Lord who keeps faith for ever,
who is just to those who are oppressed.
It is he who gives bread to the hungry,
the Lord, who sets prisoners free. Response

2. It is the Lord who gives sight to the blind,
who raises up those who are bowed down.
It is the Lord who loves the just,
the Lord, who protects the stranger. Response

3. He upholds the widow and orphan
but thwarts the path of the wicked.
The Lord will reign for ever,
Zion’s God, from age to age. Response


SECOND READING
A reading from the first letter of St Paul to Timothy 6:11-16
Do all you have been told until the Lord.

But, as a man dedicated to God, you must aim to be saintly and religious,
filled with faith and love, patient and gentle. Fight the good fight of the faith
and win for yourself the eternal life to which you were called when you
made your profession and spoke up for the truth in front of many
witnesses. Now, before God the source of all life and before Christ, who
spoke up as a witness for the truth in front of Pontius Pilate, I put to you
the duty of doing all that you have been told, with no faults or failures, until
the Appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who at the due time will be revealed
by God, the blessed and only Ruler of all,
the King of kings and the Lord of lords,
who alone is immortal,
whose home is in inaccessible light,
whom no man has seen and no man is able to see:
to him be honour and everlasting power. Amen.

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Gospel Acclamation     Jn 10: 27

Alleluia, alleluia!
The sheep that belong to me listen to my voice, says the Lord,
I know them and they follow me.
Alleluia!

or 2 Cor 8
Alleluia, alleluia!
Lord Jesus was rich, but he became poor for your sake,
to make you rich out of his poverty.
Alleluia!


GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 16:19-31
He is being comforted now while you are in agony.

Jesus said to the Pharisees: ‘There was a rich man who used to dress in
purple and fine linen and feast magnificently every day. And at his gate
there lay a poor man called Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to fill
himself with the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table. Dogs even came
and licked his sores. Now the poor man died and was carried away by the
angels to the bosom of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.
‘In his torment in Hades he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off
with Lazarus in his bosom. So he cried out, “Father Abraham, pity me and
send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I
am in agony in these flames”. “My son,” Abraham replied “remember that
during your life good things came your way, just as bad things came the
way of Lazarus. Now he is being comforted here while you are in agony.
But that is not all: between us and you a great gulf has been fixed, to stop
anyone, if he wanted to, crossing from our side to yours, and to stop any
crossing from your side to ours.”
‘The rich man replied, “Father, I beg you then to send Lazarus to my
father’s house, since I have five brothers, to give them warning so that
they do not come to this place of torment too”. “They have Moses and the
prophets,” said Abraham “let them listen to them.”. “Ah no, father
Abraham,” said the rich man “but if someone comes to them from the
dead, they will repent.” Then Abraham said to him, “If they will not listen
either to Moses or to the prophets, they will not be convinced even if
someone should rise from the dead”.’

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Bulletin - Sunday, 22nd September 2019

Mass Readings - Sunday, 22nd September 2019

FIRST READING
A reading from the Book of the prophet Amos 8:4-7
Against those who ‘buy up the poor for money.

Listen to this, you who trample on the needy and try to suppress the poor people of the country, you who say, ‘When will New Moon be over so that we can sell our corn, and sabbath, so that we can market our wheat?

Then by lowering the bushel, raising the shekel, by swindling and tampering with the scales, we can buy up the poor for money, and the needy for a pair of sandals,

and get a price even for the sweepings of the wheat.’

The Lord swears it by the pride of Jacob,

‘Never will I forget a single thing you have done’

The Word of the Lord.



Responsorial Psalm Ps 112
Response Praise the Lord, who raises the poor.

1. Praise, O servants of the Lord,
praise the name of the Lord!
May the name of the Lord be blessed
both now and for evermore! Response

2. High above all nations is the Lord,
above the heavens his glory.
Who is like the Lord, our God,
who has risen on high to his throne
yet stoops from the heights to look down,
to look down upon heaven and earth? Response

3. From the dust he lifts up the lowly,
from the dungheap he raises the poor
to set him in the company of princes,
yes, with the princes of his people. Response



SECOND READING
A reading from the first letter of St Paul to Timothy 2:1-8
There should be prayers offered for everyone to God who wants everyone to be saved.

My advice is that, first of all, there should be prayers offered for everyone –

petitions, intercessions and thanksgiving – and especially for kings and others in

authority, so that we may be able to live religious and reverent lives in peace

and quiet. To do this is right, and will please God our saviour: he wants everyone

to be saved and reach full knowledge of the truth. For there is only one God,

and there is only one mediator between God and mankind, himself a man,

Christ Jesus, who sacrificed himself as a ransom for them all. He is the evidence

of this, sent at the appointed time, and I have been named a herald and

apostle of it and – I am telling the truth and no lie – a teacher of the faith and

the truth to the pagans.

In every place, then, I want the men to lift their hands up reverently in prayer,

with no anger or argument.

The Word of the Lord.



Gospel Acclamation Acts 16: 14

Alleluia, alleluia!
Open our heart, O Lord,
to accept the words of your Son.
Alleluia!

Or 2 Cor 8: 9

Alleluia, alleluia!
Lord Jesus was rich,
but he became poor for your sake,
to make you rich out of his poverty.
Alleluia!



GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 16:1-13
You cannot be the slave both of God and of money.

Jesus said to his disciples, ‘There was a rich man and he had a steward
denounced to him for being wasteful with his property. He called for the man
and said, “What is this I hear about you? Draw me up an account of your
stewardship because you are not to be my steward any longer.” Then the
steward said to himself, “Now that my master is taking the stewardship from me,
what am I to do? Dig? I am not strong enough. Go begging? I should be too
ashamed. Ah, I know what I will do to make sure that when I am dismissed from
office there will be some to welcome me into their homes.”
Then he called his master’s debtors one by one. To the first he said, “How much
do you owe my master?” “One hundred measures of oil” was the reply. The
steward said, “Here, take your bond; sit down straight away and write fifty”. To
another he said, “And you, sir, how much do you owe?” “One hundred
measures of wheat” was the reply. The steward said, “Here, take your bond and
write eighty”.
‘The master praised the dishonest steward for his astuteness. For the children of
this world are more astute in dealing with their own kind than are the children of
light.’
‘And so I tell you this: use money, tainted as it is, to win you friends, and thus
make sure that when it fails you, they will welcome you into the tents of eternity.
The man who can be trusted in little things can be trusted in great; the man who
is dishonest in little things will be dishonest in great. If then you cannot be trusted
with money, that tainted thing, who will trust you with genuine riches? And if you
cannot be trusted with what is not yours, who will give you what is your very
own?
‘No servant can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love
the second, or treat the first with respect and the second with scorn. You cannot
be the slave both of God and of money.’

The Gospel of the Lord

Shorter form

GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 16:10-13
You cannot be the slave both of God and of money.

Jesus said to his disciples, “The man who can be trusted in little things can be
trusted in great; the man who is dishonest in little things will be dishonest in great.
If then you cannot be trusted with money, that tainted thing, who will trust you
with genuine riches? And if you cannot be trusted with what is not yours, who will
give you what is your very own?
‘No servant can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love
the second, or treat the first with respect and the second with scorn. You cannot
be the slave both of God and of money.’

The Gospel of the Lord

Laudato Si' mi Signore

Bulletin - Sunday, 15th September 2019

Mass Readings - Sunday, 15th September 2019

FIRST READING

A reading from the book of Exodus  32:7-11. 13-14

The Lord relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.

The Lord spoke to Moses,

'Go down now, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have apostasised.  They have been quick to leave the way I marked out for them;  they have made themselves a calf of molten metal and have worshiped it and offered it sacrifice. "Here is your God, Israel," they have cried "who brought you up from the land of Egypt!"  I can see how headstrong these people are!  Leave me, now, my wrath shall blaze out against them and devour them;  of you, however, I will make a great nation.'

But Moses pleaded with the Lord his God. 'Lord,'  he said,  'why should your wrath blaze out against this people of yours whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with arm outstretched and mighty hand?  Remember Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,  your servants to whom by your own self you swore and made this promise:  I will make your offspring as many as the stars of heaven,  and all this land which I promised I will give to your descendants,  and it shall be their heritage for ever.'   So the Lord relented and  did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.

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Responsorial Psalm    

Ps 50:3-4.12-13.17.19. R/Lk 15:18

Respond:  I will leave this place and go to my father.

1. Have mercy on me, God, in your kindness.

    In your compassion blot out my offence.

    O wash me more and more from my guilt and

    cleanse me from my sin.                                         Respond

2. A pure heart create for me, O God,

    put a steadfast spirit within me.

    Do not cast me away from your presence,

    nor deprive me of your holy spirit.                         Respond

3. O Lord, open my lips

    and my mouth shall declare your praise.

    My sacrifice is a contrite spirit;

    a humbled, contrite heart you will not spurn.          Respond

SECOND READING

A reading from the first letter of St Paul to Timothy   1:12-17

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord,  who has give me strength,  and who judged me faithful enough to call me into his service even though I used to be a blasphemer and did all I could to injure and discredit the faith.  Mercy, however, was shown me, because until I became a believer I had been acting in ignorance;  and the grace of our Lord filled me with faith and with the love that is in Christ Jesus.  Here is a saying that you can rely on and nobody should doubt:  that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.  I myself am the greatest of them;  and if mercy has been shown to me,  it is because Jesus Christ meant to make me the greatest evidence of his inexhaustible patience for all the other people who would later have to trust in him to come to eternal life.  To the eternal King,  the undying,  invisible and only God,  be honour and glory for ever and ever.  Amen.

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Gospel Acclamation

Alleluia, alleluia!

May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ 

enlighten the eyes of our mind,

so that we can see what hope his call holds for us.

Alleluia!

or

Alleluia, alleluia!

God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself,

and he as entrusted to us the news that they are reconciled.

Alleluia!

GOSPEL

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke    15:1-32

There will be rejoicing in heaven over one repentant sinner.

*The tax collectors and the sinners were all seeking the company of Jesus to hear what he had to say,  and the Pharisees and the scribes complained.  'This man' they said 'welcomes sinners and eats with them.'  So he spoke this parable to them:

'What man among you with a hundred sheep, losing one, would not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the missing one till he found it?  And when he found it,  would he not joyfully take it on his shoulders and then,  when he got home,  call together his friends,  and neighbours? "Rejoice with me,"  he would say "I have found my sheep that was lost."  In the same way,  I tell  you,  there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one repentant sinner than over ninety-nine virtuous men who have no need of repentance.

'Or again,  what woman with ten drachmas would not, if she lost one,  light a lamp and sweep out the house and search thoroughly till she found it?  And then,  when she had found it,  call together her friends and neighbours?   'Rejoice with me,"  she would say "I have found the drachma I lost.   "In the same way,  I tell you,  there is rejoicing among the angels of God over one repentant sinner.' *

He also said,  'A man had two sons.  The younger said to his father,  "Father,  let me have the share of the estate that would come to me."  So the father divided the property between  them.  A few days later,  the younger son got together everything he had and left for a distant country where he squandered his money on a life of debauchery.

'When he had spent it all,  that country experienced a severe  famine,  and now he began to feel the pinch,  so the hired himself out to one of the local inhabitants who put him on his farm to fee the pigs.  And he would willingly have filled his belly with the husks the pigs were eating but no one offered him anything.  Then he came to his senses and said,  "how many of my father's paid servants have more food than they want,  and here am I dying of hunger!  I will leave this place and go to my father and say:  Father,  I have sinned against heaven and against you;  I no longer deserve to be called your son;  treat me as one of your paid servants.  "So he left the place and went back to his father.

'While he was still a long way off,  his father saw him and was moved with pity.  He ran to the boy,  clasped him in his arms and kissed him tenderly.  The his son said,  "Father,  I have sinned against heaven and against you.  I no longer deserve to be called your son."  But the father said to his servants,  "Quick!  Bring out the best robe and put in on him;  put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.  Bring the calf we have been fattening,  and kill it;  we are going to have a feast,  a celebration,  because this son of mine was dead and has come back to life;  he was lost and is found."  And they began to celebrate.

'Now the elder son was out in the fields,  and on his way back,  as he drew near the house,  he could hear music and dancing.  Calling one of the servants he asked what it was all about.  "Your brother has come" replied the servant "and your father has killed the calf we had fattened because he has got him back safe and sound."   He was angry then and refused to go in,  and his father came out to plead with him;  but he answered his father,  "Look,  all these years I have slaved for you and never once disobeyed your orders,  yet you never offered me so much as a kid for me to celebrate with my friends.  But, for this son of yours,  when he comes back after swallowing up your property - he and his women - you kill the calf we had been fattening."

'The father said, "My son,  you are with me always and all I have is yours.  But it was only right we should celebrate and rejoice,  because your brother here was dead and has come to life;  he was lost and is found."'

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Shorter Form, verses 1-10. 
Read between*

Census 2019 - Malacca Johore Diocese

Bulletin - Sunday, 08th September 2019

Mass Readings - Sunday, 08th September 2019

FIRST READING
A reading from the Book of Wisdom   9:13-18
Who can divine the will of God?

‘What man indeed can know the intentions of God?

Who can divine the will of the Lord?

The reasonings of mortals are unsure and our intentions unstable;

for a perishable body presses down the soul,

and this tent of clay weighs down the teeming mind.

It is hard enough for us to work out what is on earth,

laborious to know what lies within our reach;

who, then, can discover what is in the heavens?

As for your intention, who could have learnt it, had you not granted Wisdom

and sent your holy spirit from above?

Thus have the paths of those on earth been straightened

and men been taught what pleases you,  and saved, by Wisdom.’

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Responsorial Psalm   Ps 89

Response:
Lord, you have been our refuge from one generation to the next.

1.
You turn men back into dust
and say: ‘Go back, sons of men.’
To your eyes a thousand years
are like yesterday, come and gone,
no more than a watch in the night.
Response

2.
You sweep men away like a dream,
like grass which springs up in the morning.
In the morning it springs up and flowers:
by evening it withers and fades.
Response

3.
Make us know the shortness of our life
that we may gain wisdom of heart.
Lord, relent! Is your anger for ever?
Show pity to your servants.
Response

4.
In the morning, fill us with your love;
we shall exult and rejoice all our days.
Let the favour of the Lord be upon us:
give success to the work of our hands.
Response



SECOND READING
A reading from the letter of St Paul to Philomon   1:9-10. 12-17
Have him back, not as a slave anymore but as a dear brother.

This is Paul writing, an old man now and, what is more, still a prisoner of Christ

Jesus. I am appealing to you for a child of mine, whose father I became while

wearing these chains: I mean . He was of no use to you before, but he will be useful

to you now, as he has been to me. I am sending him back to you, and with him – I

could say – a part of my own self. I should have liked to keep him with me; he could

have been a substitute for you, to help me while I am in the chains that the Good

News has brought me. However, I did not want to do anything without your consent; it

would have been forcing your act of kindness, which should be spontaneous. I know

you have been deprived of Onesimus for a time, but it was only so that you could

have him back for ever, not as a slave any more, but something much better than a

slave, a dear brother; especially dear to me, but how much more to you, as a blood

brother as well as a brother in the Lord. So if all that we have in common means

anything to you, welcome him as you would me.

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Gospel Acclamation   Jn 15: 15

Alleluia, alleluia!
I call you friends, says the Lord, because I have made known to you
everything I have learnt from my Father.
Alleluia!

Ps 118: 135

or

Alleluia, alleluia!
Let your face shine on your servant,
and teach me your decrees.
Alleluia!



GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke   14:25-33
None of you can be my disciple unless you give up all your possessions.

Great crowds accompanied Jesus on his way and he turned and spoke to them.
If any man comes to me without hating his father, mother, wife, children, brothers,
sisters, yes and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple.
Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. ‘And
indeed, which of you here, intending to build a tower, would not first sit down and
work out the cost to see if he had enough to complete it? Otherwise, if he laid the
foundation and then found himself unable to finish the work, the onlookers would all
start making fun of him and saying, “‘Here is a man who started to build and was
unable to finish”. Or again, what king marching to war against another king would not
first sit down and consider whether with ten thousand men he could stand up to the
other who advanced against him with twenty thousand? If not, then while the other
king was still a long way off, he would send envoys to sue for peace. So in the same
way, none of you can be my disciple unless he gives up all his possessions.

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